Solemn

Famous quotes containing the word solemn:

“A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

““I tell you the solemn truth that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.””
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“Then thus I turn me from my country’s light,
To dwell in solemn shades of endless night.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)